Batemans tenant takes on red-tape buster role

Lincolnshire family brewer and retailer George Bateman & Son has appointed one of its tenants as a full-time red-tape buster.

David Philips, former tenant at the company's Ball House pub near Boston, has be-

come the company's first retail

legislation and administration manager. The tenancy of his pub has been taken on by his wife while David works full-time at the brewery.

David's job will be to help tenants tackle Government re-gulations and legislation effec-

tively and quickly - so they can spend more time running their businesses. The new job is one of three new roles being created at Batemans as it plans for

the future.

The company is close to naming a new profit partnership director and a new profit partnership manager - both roles will focus on helping licensees develop their businesses.

Batemans managing director Stuart Bateman said: "We thought it would be a good idea to have somebody in the new retail management structure who can see everything from the tenant's point-of-view.

"David will be of immense help in integrating new ideas within the estate, because they will be brought into his own pub as well.

"There can be no better person than one of our tenants to to help us understand all the bureaucracy and frustrations of running a pub.

"David, who has run three different Batemans pubs over the past 15 years, has an excellent record in training staff and is always bang up-to-date on regulations. He applied for the job but if he hadn't I'd have approached him."

The name of Batemans' other two senior appointments are expected to be unveiled at the end of August. The new management structure at Batemans has been created to help the company develop the "profit partnership" after the imminent retirement of two senior retail managers - Basil Dixon and Arthur Cook - in August.